Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

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Duck Stab/Buster & Glen
Studio album by The Residents
Released	1978
Genre	Avant-garde
Label	East Side Digital
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The Residents chronology
Not Available (1978)	Duck Stab/Buster & Glen (1978)	Eskimo (1979)

Duck Stab!/Buster and Glen is an album released in 1978 by The Residents. The Duck Stab! portion was a seven-song EP released earlier in 1978 featuring shorter songs similar to the first side of Fingerprince. Buster and Glen was meant to be a follow-up EP, but instead was included on LP with a re-mixed version of the former release.

Due to the shorter length of the songs, the album was more accessible for fans who had recently heard "Satisfaction", and songs like "Constantinople" and "Hello Skinny" helped cement the band's cult following. This album also features some of the best guitar work that Philip "Snakefinger" Lithman did with the group.

It is reputed that one of the humor pieces found in the 1920's Fawcett Publications humor magazine, Captain Billy's Whizbang, titled "Al-Bar the Bubul Emir", was the inspiration for the Tin Pan Alley song "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" copyrighted by Kennedy and Simon. Numerous artists have covered this song, including Edmundo Ros (1953) , Radio Revellers (1953) , Frankie Vaughan (1954), Caterina Valente (1954), The Four Lads (1954), Santo & Johnny (1962) and They Might Be Giants (1990). The tune itself, is based on the Irving Berlin song "Puttin' On The Ritz". In their typical fashion, The Residents composed a revisionist version for this album that can be seen as a predecessor to their later work on albums from their American Composers Series like "George & James" and "Stars & Hank Forever: The American Composers Series".

"Duck Stab!/Buster and Glen" also features three songs that the band Primus covered: "Hello Skinny" and "Constantinople" (on the re-release of Frizzle Fry) and "Sinister Exaggerator" (on Miscellaneous Debris).

[edit] Track listing

1. "Constantinople"
2. "Sinister Exaggerator"
3. "The Booker Tease"
4. "Blue Rosebuds"
5. "Laughing Song"
6. "Bach Is Dead"
7. "Elvis and His Boss"
8. "Lizard Lady"
9. "Semolina"
10. "Birthday Boy"
11. "Weight-lifting Lulu"
12. "Krafty Cheese"
13. "Hello Skinny"
14. "The Electrocutioner"

• Bonus tracks (1987 CD release only)

1. Disaster
2. Plants
3. Farmers
4. Twinkle

The Residents
Album era (1972-1980)
Meet the Residents (1974) | Not Available (1974, released 1978) | The Third Reich 'n' Roll (1976) | Fingerprince (1976) | Duck Stab/Buster & Glen (1978) | Eskimo (1979) | The Commercial Album (1980)
Performance era (1981-1990)
Mark of the Mole (1981) | The Tunes of Two Cities (1982) | Intermission (1983) | George & James (1984) | Whatever Happened to Vileness Fats? (1984) | The Big Bubble (1985) | Stars & Hank Forever (1986) | God in Three Persons (1988) | The King & Eye (1989)
Multimedia era (1991-1996)
Freak Show (1991) | Gingerbread Man (1994) | Bad Day on the Midway (1995) | Have A Bad Day (1997)
Band era (1997-2005)
Wormwood (1998) | Icky Flix (2001) | Demons Dance Alone (2002) | Animal Lover (2005)
Storyteller era (2006-present)
The River of Crime (2006) | Timmy (2006) | Tweedles (2006)
Related articles
Snakefinger | N. Senada | Vileness Fats | Ralph Records
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